With some alteration, many existing pieces of infrastructure will be reused, including the sprinkler system, utility shafts, storm-water drains and the electrical conduit embedded in the ceilings.
Plans includes telephone backup systems, the evaluation of flood risks, new protocols for utility substations, storm-proofing gasoline refineries, altering building codes and investing in the city's sewer system and related infrastructure.
With that money and a commercial loan, they improved the property (roads, utilities, fencing, storm water retention); built amenities (a barn and pool); delineated 16 house sites (the farmland protection program allowed one home per 20 acres); and began selling lots.
Some New Yorkers whose homes lost electricity may have to wait more than two weeks to get it back — especially if their homes are the only ones on the block that lost power during the storm, utility officials said Thursday.
A series of simulation scenarios with various hurricane representations inserted into both hindcast and recent numerical models were used to assess the utility of the storm representation in the model and compare the two simulations.
For some utility customers, the storm presented life-threatening situations.
Also in dispute is who foots a $400,000 bill for relocating utility lines and storm drains.
But there was no letup for utilities, as the storm knocked down power lines and electricity was cut off at tens of thousands of households in the Northeast.
The biggest municipal utility in the storm-affected area is in Tallahassee, the state capital, which was spared the worst of the hurricane.
After Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York traveled to Washington to lobby for aid, the Obama administration proposed a broad $60 billion recovery package, including several billion dollars that could be used to protect the utility infrastructure from storms.
